We are in a cottage on a campsite near Bedoin, in the south of France. The first day, Monday, it was terribly cold (like when we arrived on Sunday) and during the night it was even minus 2 degrees! The Mont Ventoux, the mountain we see from the site, is still covered in snow and the roads over it are still closed. It looks far too cold up there for me anyhow.But now we've had a few days with lots of sun (although we had a thunderstorm this afternoon) and especially on the terrace in front of the site's main building it was very pleasant. That's where I went to make some bobbin lace. Not quite the technique I came for, because the teacher hadn't been told she was expected to teach that. She was shocked to hear, that I had made 'a little' lace before: she expected only beginners. But she loved it. Everything was there: bobbins, yarn, pins, pillows and I was the only student (many lookers on, though) It was great fun, we exchanged our knowledge and Lucette, the teacher, gave me a few new-for-me tips her mother gave her. She is from Valenciennes, a well-known French lace name. Perhaps I didn't learn so much of making lace, but it definitely was good for my French!

This morning I taught the ladies how to knit a moebius shawl. Big succes, but now they all will have to buy circular needles. They are very rare here in France! Knitting toe up socks was new to them as well and they thought I must come back this summer. It's a little far: 1200 km! Perhaps next year. It's very beautiful here, especially with the cherry trees in full blossom everywhere here.

We also behaved like tourists a little, although there are all kind of reasons why we haven't had much time for that. More about those reasons I'll write another time. We were in Carpentras, a very old French town, where we go shopping for groceries as well. Beautiful, old and big. It took a while for us to find where we had parked the car. French people we asked the way were very good at sending us in the wrong direction. We finally got where we wanted to be though.